‘We Are Not Flattening the Curve’: Health Officials Warn Rise in Coronavirus Cases Is ‘a Real Increase’
As coronavirus cases rise around the country, the nation’s top health experts are warning that the trend is going in the wrong direction. During a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on Thursday…
As coronavirus cases rise around the country, the nation’s top health experts are warning that the trend is going in the wrong direction.
During a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on Thursday, Adm. Brett Giroir said, “We are not flattening the curve right now. The curve is still going up.”
“Flattening the curve” is a term that refers to slowing the spread of the coronavirus to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system.
On Wednesday, the U.S. reported nearly 50,000 new coronavirus cases, which set a record for the number of daily new cases. The rise in cases has led several states to pump their brakes on their reopening plans and implement mask-wearing mandates.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly argued that the rise in cases is due to more testing, as IJR reported. During a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Trump said, “When you do testing to that extent you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases.”
He added, “So I said to my people, slow the testing down, please. They test, and they test, we got tests, and people don’t know what’s going on.”
Amid criticism of that statement, White House officials claimed the president was joking, and members of the White House coronavirus task force said they were never told